What is villainous about Murray? What is attractive about him? How persuasive is he?

Murray is a visiting lecturer at Jack's college on "living icons" in the popular culture department. A New York émigré who finds some of popular culture studies absurd, he wants to study Elvis in the way Jack has studied Hitler. He brims with ideas on American culture, which he shares with Jack as their friendship grows. Check this out as well,

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